Thursday, September 09, 2004

Wow, so I'm stuck in LAX...

I'm flying back from Pasadena, and all of a sudden, the captain announces that one of our engines has gone DEAD. shit. Anyway, it was no big deal - we landed at LAX and I'm getting a direct flight back to Seattle.

It was quite a production when I landed though. I guess they wew prepared for an ugly crash landing - there were at least 2 fire engines and 3 ambulances greeting us at the landing strip.

Better than having both engines fail...--------------------------Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

Blogging from Pasadena This place is pretty awesome. Every time I come to SoCal, I'm always impressed by how nice it must be to live here. When I left Seattle, it was gray and raining. You want to know what's down here? Sun, sun, and muthafuckin' palm trees.

We went to a nice restaurant last night after I got into town - it was very interesting seafood place. Much of the main restaurant was OUTSIDE with tents and little tables. Around this major courtyard was a couple big "rooms," some of them connected to other shops, and people ate in each room or in the courtyard. They were also playing B&W films projected onto the building. I guess they can get away with these outdoor restaurants because unlike Seattle, rain is rare here.

They have a cool street running through most of Pasadena - Colorado Ave, I believe, which has a ton of upscale shops, all designed in the stucco/Spanish-villa type architecture. Very nice.